Isilon Data Insights (container build)

Overview

This repo provides an easy to install dockerized build of the Isilon Data Insights Dashboards with Grafana, InfluxDB and the API stats collector. The docker build pulls from public repositories to installed and configure the containers enabling an easy to use graphical performance charting tool for monitoring and reporting on Isilon/PowerScale performance. The collector can scale to monitor as many clusters as needed.

Table of Contents

• Pre-Requisites
• Quick Start Instructions
• Linux Install Steps
  • Rocky Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux
• Administration Info
  • Upgrade
  • Backups
  • Adding More Clusters

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Pre-Requisites

• Linux host (physical or VM)
  • Rocky Linux Detailed Build Steps
  • Ubuntu Linux Detailed Build Steps
• 1 CPU and 4G of memory (more if monitoring more clusters)
• recent version of docker (tested with 1:20), docker-compose and git
• open firewall port 3000 for grafana access

Quick Start Instructions

Run all steps as the root user or docker enabled user.

Step 1 - Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/j-sims/idi.git

Step 2 - Change to the idi directory

cd idi

Step 3 - Build the containers

bash run.sh build

Step 4 - Use web browser to connect to the host on port 3000

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Steps for Building VMs for Docker

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Detailed Instructions for Rocky Linux

These steps provide details how building and Rocky Linux 8.6 (CentOS) VM and the docker environment needed to run idi

Download the ISO

https://rockylinux.org/download

Create a VM with a minimum of 4G Ram and 20G Disk

Boot the VM

• default install
• set root password
• accept or change partitioning as desired
• Initiate install

Update and Reboot

dnf update -y
reboot

Install docker & git (credit)

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
dnf install -y docker-ce git
systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker
docker run hello-world  && echo Success

Install docker-compose

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version  && echo Success

Open Firewall Port 3000

firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port 3000/tcp

Clone, Build and Start idi

git clone https://github.com/j-sims/idi.git
cd idi/
bash run.sh build

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Detailed Instructions for Ubuntu Linux

These steps provide details how building and Ubuntu Linux 22.04 VM and the docker environment needed to run idi

Download the ISO

https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso

Create a VM with a minimum of 4G Ram and 20G Disk

Boot the VM

• Minimial Install of Ubuntu Server 22.04
• accept or change partitioning as desired
• Create default user
• Install Openssh for remote access
• Do not select more packages at install
• Start install and allow to run to completion then reboot

Update and Reboot

sudo su -
apt update
apt upgrade -y
reboot

Install docker, docker-compose & git

sudo su -
apt install -y docker.io docker-compose git
docker run hello-world  && echo Success

Open Firewall Port 3000

ufw allow 3000/tcp

Clone, Build and Start idi

git clone https://github.com/j-sims/idi.git
cd idi/
bash run.sh build

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Administration Info

Below is info on the build to ease the administration of the Isilon Data Insights environment

Status (Check for Upgrades)

To check the status of idi (see if running) and to check for code updates run the following: bash run.sh status

Upgrading Idi

The updgrade process will shutdown idi temporarily, but all data should be retained and the process will restart idi when complete.

bash run.sh upgrade

Known Issues

• Security teams that insert a custom root CA for https packet inspection onto clients will need to add the dockerhost as an exception for the duration of the build process otherwise apt, dnf and docker pull will break.